(Columbia) Joe Biden once again touted his economic reforms on Thursday, renamed “Bidenomics” by his team, not hesitating to sting his Republican opponents at the same time during a speech in a factory in Carolina. South, in the southeastern United States.
Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the Democrat seeks to take on board the opposition’s language on the economy, claiming to be the pro-growth president, with the support of the opening of a multitude of new factories on American soil.
Venturing into very Republican-friendly territory in Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, Joe Biden repeated his message during a visit to a factory producing solar panel components.
“Investments are working, and factories are being built, and jobs are being created…in rural America, in the middle, across America, in areas that have been neglected and hollowed out,” the US president said.
Listing statistics, Joe Biden laid out the successes of his economic reforms, dubbed “Bidenomics.”
The unemployment rate has remained steadily below 4% for the longest period in 50 years as inflation – which has wreaked havoc on the US economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic – has slowly but surely subsides, and job creation explodes.
500 billion
And it’s no coincidence, the Democratic president told workers at the factory he was visiting on Thursday.
All of this economic activity, he believes, is fueled by historic investments by the state, and the incentives he pushed through, despite a divided Congress.
“Since the start of my mandate, we have attracted $500 billion in private investment in the American manufacturing industry, both here and around the world”, launched Joe Biden, before adding: “This is historic, and it is “Bidenomics” in action”.
And the president does not hesitate to make fun of the elected Republicans whom he accuses of hypocrisy.
“All those members of Congress who voted against [les projets de loi d’investissement public] now realize how great it is, and they brag about it! “, quipped Joe Biden.
“Propaganda visits”
South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, candidate for the Republican nomination for 2024, mocked the Democrat’s speech.
“The propaganda visits will not hide the damage done by the” Bidenomics “on our economy”, he launched on Twitter.
No Republican official was present during Joe Biden’s factory tour. And on the way to it, the presidential convoy was greeted on the side by a dozen supporters of Donald Trump, including a woman waving a flag “women for Trump” and making a vulgar gesture towards the car presidential.
Joe Biden’s campaign team, for its part, believes that it can nibble away at part of Donald Trump’s electoral base by touting the president’s successes in the manufacturing industry, which largely benefit the middle and working classes. .
This targets the “neglected and hollowed out” regions, which turned away from the Democratic Party in favor of Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections.
The polls, however, seem to suggest that the message is struggling to penetrate.
In fact, a majority of Americans polled say they trust Donald Trump more than Joe Biden when it comes to the economy.
But for the Democrat’s advisers, the tide will turn once the investments take hold and begin to pay off, giving Joe Biden more opportunities to visit factories like the one he visited on Thursday.